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John Jerrim; Claudia Prieto-Latorre; Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
A sizeable literature -- spanning education, sociology and economics -- has investigated the issue of parental school preferences and school choice. A notable gap in the existing evidence base is an exploration of how such preferences differ between mothers and fathers. We present new cross-national findings on this matter, drawing on survey data…
Descriptors: Father Attitudes, Mother Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Preferences
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Hou, Zhi-Jin; Leung, S. Alvin – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
This study examined the vocational aspirations and parental vocational expectations of high school students and their parents (1067 parent-child dyads). Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and an Occupations List. The Occupations List consisted of 126 occupational titles evenly distributed across the six Holland types. Parents were…
Descriptors: Expectation, High Schools, Occupations, Daughters